Daniel Samuel was from Bombay. When he Joined the 5th Black Watch Regiment as the Quarter Master-Sergeant and he was sent to Burma.
When he was disbanded from the army, he enrolled in the Deputy Inspector General of Burma Military Police.
Private Daniel Samuel No 757, attached to the Military Police Battalion at Yamethin, Burma, and served in two wars from 1885 to 1887 and from 1887 to 1889, and was decorated with the Double bar War Medal.
He Expired in Burma.